Current NewsStay tuned to this page for the latest Hydromantis news, events, product updates and important links related to wastewater and hydraulic engineering. October 2010Hydromantis Contributes to New WEF Manual of PracticeWater Environment Federation - WEF announces the release of "Nutrient Removal : WEF Manual of Practice 34" in Oct 2010. Hydromantis president Oliver Schraa contributed to chapter 11 "Structured Process Models for Nutrient Removal", authoring sections on control, optimization, sensitivity and online applications.
Hydromantis staff are involved in the following technical presentations, workshops and posters as part of WEFTEC.10 in New Orleans. Sunday Workshop 202: Nitrogen Upgrade Life-Cycle Cost Assessment Simulation: Digital Game-Based Learning (Spencer Snowling) Sunday Workshop 215: Waste to Resource: Crafting Forward Thinking and Pragmatic Approaches (Hugh Monteith) Sunday Workshop 216: Process Design of Industrial and Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems: Design Approaches and State-of-the-Art Modeling Tools (Hugh Monteith) Monday Session 18: Modeling pH dynamics in Nutrient Removal Activated Sludge Process (R. Goel , J. Makinia, O. Schraa) Wednesday Session 100: Model Calibration for a Post Denitrification Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (A. Kaldate, R. Goel, O Schraa, S. Snowling, B. Stinson, S. Murthy) September 2010IWA World Water Congress and ExhibitionMontreal, Canada, Sept 19-24.
Oliver is also a co-author of the paper "Treating Municipal Wastewater with the Goal of Resource Recovery", with P.M. Sutton, H. Melcer, and A.P. Togna, being given on Wednesday, September 22nd in the session "Membranes for Wastewater Treatment - Full-scale Application of Membrane Technology". AUGUST 2010WEF/IWA Biofilm Reactor Technology ConferencePortland, Oregon, Aug 15-18. Spencer Snowling presented a paper entitled "Modeling A Full-Scale IFAS System in Groton CT " (Spencer Snowling, Amit Kaldate, Oliver Schraa, Rajeev Goel, Carl Almquist) . JULY 2010Hydromantis contributes to WEAO Biosolids Report
June 2010Conference
Oliver Schraa presented the paper "A Dynamic Model of Membrane Bioreactor Systems for Wastewater Treatment " (Oliver Schraa, Hank Andres, Spencer Snowling, Rajeev Goel) . MAY 2010Presentation
WEAO 2010 Annual Conference - Toronto, Ontario Oliver Schraa presented the paper "Evaluation of Wet Weather Treatment Alternatives at the Port Dalhousie WWTP" (O. Schraa, M Newbigging, D. Averill, M Tanne, M Solomon, A. Joyner). February 2010PublicationsThe April issue of WE&T magazine will feature a co-authored paper utilizing GPS-X v5.02 entitled "How Low Must you go? - Continuous-backwash filters can meet exceptionally low effluent nutrient limits". GPS-X was used to predict the performance of a denite filter. Hydromantis is pleased to announce we have collaborated with Refinery Water Engineering & Associates (RWEA) on a joint paper entitled "Deployment of Biokinetic Modeling Tools to Optimize Real-time Biological Wastewater Process Control in the Oil refining Industry". This paper has been submitted to the American Academy of Environmental Engineers as part of their annual excellence in Environmental Engineering competition. Hydromantis Staff (Hugh Monteith, Lars Sterne and Shujun Dong), with collaborators Dr. Wayne Parker of the University of Waterloo and Dr. Chris Metcalfe of Trent University, have just finalized a major literature review report for the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. The Review is titled "Emerging Substances of Concern in Biosolids: Concentrations and Effects of Treatment Processes". This in-depth review tabulates concentrations of these microconstituents in various sludge and biosolids matrices with a focus on the effectiveness of different biosolids treatment processes for reducing the mass of these contaminants in treated biosolids. Watch for this report that will soon be posted on the CCME website. Meetings/Workshops and ConferencesHydromantis senior process engineer Dr. Rajeev Goel is a co-author on a paper that will be presented at the International Water Association - leading edge technology conference at Phoenix Arizona June 2-4 2010. The paper is titled "Advanced Anaerobic Digestion process with Ozonation towards Feasible Power Production from Biogas". Look for details in the near future for the our GPS-X European 2 day training and user group meeting to be held in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2010.
Hydromantis staff will be presenting 3 days of intensive training on the use of Toxchem in Beijing China May 5 - 7th to the staff of SINOPEC one of China's largest Oil companies. A 3 day training session on GPS-X will also be held in Ningbo, China. WWTmod2010 Workshop At the Water Environment Federation's Specialty Conference on Residuals and Biosolids 2010 in Savannah, GA, Hugh Monteith is contributing a presentation at a workshop on May 23 focusing on Digester Gas Combined Heat and Power. He will be speaking about a spreadsheet model called LCAMER, the Life Cycle Assessment Manager for Energy Recovery, which Hydromantis and colleagues developed for the Water Environment Research Federation. SOFTWARE Hydromantis has recently developed a Bulgarian language interface for GPS-X Version 5.02. Please feel free to contact us for a license. January 2010Upcoming WE&T Article on Operator TrainingSpencer Snowling has co-authored the article "Cost-Effective Training of WWTP Operators with Virtual Treatment Plant Models" with several Hydromantis staff. December 2009GPS-X v5.02 is available in the following languages.
November 2009Oliver Schraa is participating in the IWA Design and Operational Uncertainty Task Group (DOUTGroup). Oliver is leading Task A4: "Incorporate knowledge from other fields and institutions on applications of uncertainty evaluation methodologies" and is also participating in Task A3: "Document and evaluate existing methods for assessing and evaluating uncertainty in wastewater treatment". October 2009PresentationRajeev Goel co-authored with Yasui Hidenari (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan) a chapter on "Application of Mathematical Models to Anaerobic Digestion Process" for the book "Anaerobic Technology for Sustainable Environment", Imperial College Press, 1-21 October 2009WEFTECCome visit Hydromantis, Inc. at WEFTEC 2009 in Orlando, Florida, October 12-14, Hall A. Booth 2859. We will be previewing the upcoming releases of GPS-X 6.0 (WWTP modeling) and TOXCHEM+ 4.0 (fate of toxics). We will also be demonstrating CapdetWorks 2.5 (design and costing), ARTS 1.4 (Hydraulic design), and WATPRO 2.0 (drinking water disinfection). Hydromantis, Inc. staff will also be presenting or co-authoring a number of technical papers. Technical Papers To Be Presented At WEFTECMonday, October 12, 2009 (11:00 am) Session 03: "Resource Recovery and Municipal Wastewater Treatment: A New Approach to Combining Biological and Physical-Chemical Processes". P.M. Sutton, C.L. Wallis-Lage, O.J. Schraa, A.P. Togna. Tuesday, October 13, 2009 (11:30 am) Session 043: "Use of a Batch Reactor To Calculate Removal Rates To Verify Model Calibration". M. Gray, S. Kestel, S. Snowling. Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (9:00 am) Session 086: "Estimating Air Emissions From an Industrial Cooling Water Reservoir After an Accidental Material Release". H. Monteith, H. Andres, O. Schraa, S. Snowling. Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (11:00 am) Session 087: "Development and Calibration of Fate Models for Micro-Constituents in Wastewater". H. Monteith, O. Schraa, H. Andres, S. Snowling. Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (4:30 pm) Session 116: "Cost Effective Training of WWTP Operators with Virtual Treatment Plant Models". S. Snowling, O. Schraa, R. Goel, H. Andres, B. Tole. October 2009PresentationScorePP Workshop (Un)successful Strategies to Reduce Emissions of Microconstituents July 2009Presentations and WorkshopsMicroconstituents and Industrial Water Quality Conference 2009 Hydromantis presentations included: Workshop A: Process Design Approaches and State-of-the-Art Modeling Tools –Problem Solving Sessions for Organics, Nitrogen and Microconstituents Removal Modeling of Industrial Wastewater Treatment - Background, Challenges, and Continuation of Problem Solving Example using GPS-X Modeling Tool Fate and Transformations of Microconstituents in Wastewater Treatment Bioscrubbing of Process Air Emissions: When Does it Work? On-Line Dynamic Simulation to Monitor Multi-Point Water Inventories at an Industrial Water Treatment Plant | ||||
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